Kiru Taye Writes

#SixSunday - A teasing Sunday Snippet

2012-05-27T12:35:00.000+01:00

My first Six Sentence Sunday is from An Engagement Challenge, my latest contemporary romance novel out now. Enjoy.

***

Oh boy!

Biting back a whimper, Ijay sank into the crisp cotton sheet as she fought to control the urge to moan out loud. She heard the sound of distant drums. It took her a while to realise it was the erratic beat of her own heart.

Paul moved to the other foot, removing the straps and releasing her feet from the sandal. “I haven’t said anything which wasn’t true tonight,” he said, the warm air from his lips feathering her receptive foot.

Get Ready For The Beach

2012-05-23T12:16:00.000+01:00

Sun and fun are here at last

Grab your book

At the Beach Book Blast!

May 23-25, 2012, more than a dozen writers are offering books at free or 99cents - just what you need to load up your e-reader so you're ready for beach-side reading! There are loads of books and short stories from a variety of genres on offer.

You can get a copy of A Valentine Challenge FREE on your Kindle from 24-25 May, along with loads of other ebooks. Don't miss it. Click on the links to browse and download.

Are you feeling lucky?

2012-05-22T21:58:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone. I'm back from my fabulous birthday mini-break in New York and I come bearing gifts.

Here are the winners from the recent give aways on my blog:

$10 gift voucher (Sinful Siren hop) - Mel Bourn
Unbound by April Vine (ebook blog giveaway) - fichen1
An Engagement Challenge ebook (TRR Erotic Romance hop) - Patricia Williams, Booklover0226 and Nya Rayne.

Congratulations to all the winners. Make sure I have your email address so I can reach you.

Have a fantastic week.

I'm an International Sinful Siren

2012-05-15T00:30:00.000+01:00

Got your attention, didn't I? LOL

Welcome to the Sinful Sirens blog fest hosted by Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews and Under the Covers Book Blog.

As it's my birthday on 18 May, I'm giving away a $10 book voucher (Amazon or All Romance eBooks) to one lucky winner.

This contest is open internationally.

A review: Unbound by April Vine

2012-05-14T00:30:00.000+01:00

Unbound by April Vine is an erotic paranormal romance novella set in Cape Town, South Africa published by Ellora’s Cave.

Disclaimer: I paid for and downloaded this eBook from Amazon UK. Although April Vine is a fellow writer, no favours have been exchanged for this review. In fact, I have long awaited this book after I read her previous eBook The Midnight Rose and loved it.

Leave a comment and you will be entered into a prize draw to win a FREE copy of this book.

TRR Erotic Romance Madness Party

2012-05-10T02:49:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone. Welcome to the Erotic Romance Madness hop hosted by The Romance Reviews. It runs from 10 to 14 May. There are load of goodies to be won, so join the fun.

The aim of the hop is to showcase erotic romance stories we love. Here's my choice:

Chat with Victoria Vane, Historical Romance Author

2012-05-07T09:58:00.000+01:00

I’m so pleased to welcome the lovely Victoria Vane to my blog today. She's a fellow Breathless Press author and writes historical erotic romance too. Please give her a warm welcome.

A lover of history and deeply romantic stories, Victoria combines these elements to craft romantic historical novels and novellas for a mature reading audience. Her writing influences are Georgette Heyer for fabulous witty dialogue and over the top characters, Robin Schone , Sylvia Day, and Charlotte Featherstone for beautifully crafted prose in stories with deep sensuality, and Lila DiPasqua for creative vision in melding history with eroticism.

Ms. Vane also writes award nominated romantic historical fiction as Emery Lee. http://authoremerylee.com

Contact:

http://authorvictoriavane.com

Blog: http://victoriavane.wordpress.com

Facebook: Author Victoria Vane or Author Emery Lee

Twitter: @authoremerylee

RFW - Night On The Town (Picture prompt)

2012-05-05T12:12:00.000+01:00

Hello readers! Welcome back to Romantic Friday Writers. This week we have a picture prompt challenge. We are supposed to respond to this picture with a flash fiction piece or poem of 600 words or less.

I've tried something different with this piece of flash fiction. It was written in a hurry but I hope you enjoy it.

Word count: 550 word (FCA)

New Look - Do You Like?

2012-05-03T10:13:00.001+01:00

Hello everyone. Welcome to the month of May. I love May because it heralds the hot summer season. Although that looks like a pipe dream with the rains we've been having in the South of England lately.

But I'm not going to let that get me down because May is also my birthday month. Yes, my star sign is Taurus, if you're into astrology. Did you guess? LOL. According to Kelly's Star Signs, Taureans are 'easy to understand', 'practical and persevering', 'sensual and patient' and 'make excellent lovers'! Yeah! LOL.

Good news, the month has started well so far. I've just signed my 4th contract with Breathless Press to publish my paranormal romance short story in The Blood Bar Chronicles Book 3 - The Enforcers anthology with 3 of my other writing buddies at The Nuthouse Scribblers; Yazmin Subha, Alyssa Fox and Caledonia St James. I'll bring you more news on the anthology soon.
Book 1 of The Blood Bar Chronicles - The Alphas is out now and features Cherie Nicholls, Jorja Lovett, Doris O'Connor and Arya Grey.

Read more »

Book Release: An Engagement Challenge

2012-04-29T06:00:00.000+01:00

Yay! The day finally arrived. My 4th eBook is out and as I promised all you my wonderful readers, it's a long one.
It's a full-length romance filled with suspense, emotional conflict and sizzling erotic bliss. You won't be disappointed.
So without further ado, I present An Engagement Challenge, Book 2 in the Challenge series.

Read the excerpt and answer the question at the bottom by leaving me a comment and you could be selected to receive a free copy of the eBook. Winner will be announced on Monday 30 April 2012.

Vote HIS TREASURE for Cover of the Month

2012-04-23T12:00:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone. I hope you're having a great weekend.

I just wanted to pop in and let you know that HIS TREASURE is up for April Cover of the Month at You Gotta Read. Winning the competition earns my book free advertising on their website. I'd really like that and I hope you will help me by voting for it.

Please click this link and VOTE for #3 His Treasure. Also please share or tweet this as well. Thank you very much.

Voting closes midnight 27 April 2012.

Have a great weekend.

Thrusty Thursday - For Your Reading Pleasure

2012-04-19T14:02:00.001+01:00

Hello everyone! It's a news round up bulletin.

It's been a busy week. Kids went back to school after the Easter break yesterday. We had to brave freezing rain and bumper-to-bumper school run traffic. No, Walking was not an option in that rain. LOL

On a more positive note; I finished my first ever 70,000 word novel. When I first started writing, I thought that was impossible for me. But two years down the line and I've done it. Yippee!

Read more »

Staying at Home Party at TRS

2012-04-15T10:05:00.000+01:00

Happy Sunday, everyone. It's a glorious sunny day over here. Let's hope spring is in full swing now. How about a party to celebrate? Yay! I'm in. Are you?

The Romance Studio is having a party for those who didn't go to this year's RT event. And I'm there. Join the party, leave me a comment on my post and you could end up with a copy of my next book, An Engagement Challenge. And you get to choose if you want it in eBook or Paperback too.

So what are you waiting for? See you there. Just click the link to join the party.
The party ends at midnight tonight 15/04/2012

I'm over at The Nuthouse Scribblers

2012-04-12T10:12:00.002+01:00

Hiya! There's no Thrusty Thursday post this week because I'm over at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog.
Some of you know I'm a regular contributor over there. It's the online home for a group of up and coming writers who met after the New Voices 2010 contest and formed a critique group. Some of us have been recently published and others on their way to publication.

My post is about the lead character in my next contemporary romance, An Engagement Challenge. I shared with you my dilemma in picking the right cover in my post Judge A Book By Its Cover. Now you can read about the character behind the cover and also see the final cover I chose. There's also an excerpt from the book.

I'd love to see you all over there. Just click this link. Stop by and say hello.

If you recently enter a giveaway contest on my blog. Check the top right-hand bar for the list of winners. Have a great day.

Hoppy Easter Blog Hop Giveaway

2012-04-06T09:54:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the Hoppy Easter Blog Giveaway Hop hosted by The Blog Hop Spot. It runs from 6 - 8 April 2012.

2 lucky winners get to choose their own preference of eBooks from my backlist.

Thrusty Thursday – Judge A Book By Its Cover

2012-04-05T02:27:00.000+01:00

Hello Readers. Yesterday I did a little experiment on Facebook. Well, it wasn’t very scientific and probably didn’t cover a broad spectrum of my readership but it produced an interesting result.

I asked people to vote for their preferred cover out of these two.

A total of 52 people voted. 40 voted for A. 12 voted for B. Overwhelming, right? You’d think I’d go ‘Yeah, my job here is done’ and put my feet up. After all, I have a cover most people liked. Nope. Read the comments below and I’ll explain why I still have my work cut out.

The Price of Candy - Authors for Trayvon

2012-04-01T10:49:00.000+01:00

On Feb 26, 2012, Trayvon Martins life was cut short as he walked to a family member's home from a convenience store where he purchased some candy. The price of candy for this seventeen year old child was his life.

We've come together as a community of readers and author to support Trayvon's family in their battle for justice. From April 1 - 7, 2012, participating authors will donate 17% of their book sales to the Martins family.

Authors for Trayvon is sponsored by All4One Authors Promoting Authors. It runs from 1 - 7 April, 2012.

I'll be donating 17% of my royalties from the eBooks sales of A Valentine Challenge to Trayvon's family. If you already have a copy of this ebook, please consider buying one as a gift for a member of your family or friend to help a worthy cause. Even if they don't have an eReader, they can read eBooks on their phones or PCs/Laptops/Notebooks/iPad, via Pdf, ePUB or Mobi.
To see a list of all the participating books and authors, go here.

Read more »

Reading Romances Pre-Party Giveaway Hop

2012-03-24T15:25:00.000Z

Welcome to the Giveaway Hop hosted by Reading Romances to celebrate their blogiversary party. It runs from March 24 - 28, 2012. This is open Internationally.

I will be giving away a selection of my 3 current published eBooks.

RFW - She Wears My Ring

2012-03-23T12:03:00.001Z

Source

Hello readers. Welcome back to Romantic Friday Writers. It's a writing challenge to write 400 word to a prompt. It could be flash fiction, an excerpt, or a poem.This week the prompt is She Wears My Ring.
Do you want to push your boundaries as a writer? Do you enjoy writing challenges? Click the link above to join the RFW group.

I've chosen an excerpt from a story I started writing in December 2011 titled The Gift of Christmas. It is still a work-in-progress, so feel free to comment or critique if you wish. I'd love to know what you think. Enjoy. :)

Read more »

Lucky Seven - His Princess

2012-03-21T12:22:00.000Z

Doris O'Connor tagged me on this fun thing making the rounds in the writing circuit.

Here are the rules:
1. Go to page 77 of your current manuscript
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy the next 7 lines - sentences or paragraphs and post them as they are written. No cheating.
4. Tag 7 authors

Read more »

Champions - Let's Talk Inspirations by Sidney Bristol

2012-03-19T00:30:00.000Z

Hello readers, I have a guest on my blog today. Please join me and give a warm welcome to Sidney Bristol, author of erotic contemporary romance novel Flirting with Rescue published by Ellora's Cave. I've read her book and it's steaming hot. Make sure you pick up a copy too. I will be giving away one copy of her book to one lucky commenter at the end of the week. So make sure you leave a comment.

Sidney, over to you.

Thrusty Thursday - A Rose By Any Other Name

2012-03-15T11:15:00.000Z

Hello readers. I hope you’re all doing great. Today I want to discuss something that’s been on my mind for a long time—names. Or more specifically author names.

It wasn’t until I started writing and did some research about choosing an author name that I came to realise that some authors use different names when they write in different genres.

Thrusty Thursday - Have wings, will fly

2012-03-01T12:52:00.000Z

Hello readers! Sorry, there's been no updates for a while. I've been off-kilter and down with the flu. I'm glad to say I'm back in the land of the living (just about). I've got a couple of things to share, so bear with me.

First I want to remind those who won copies of my ebooks in the recent give-away contests to email me and tell me which format they prefer. Go to the Contact Me tab for my email address. If you already sent me an email, please send me another gentle reminder. Thank you.

Read more »

Naughty After Dark - His Strength Men of Valor #2

2012-02-15T11:10:00.000Z

The Naughty After Dark blog hop is hosted by Close Encounters with the Third Kind and Natasha Blackthorne. It celebrates all things adult and naughty. So if you're under 18 years old, it's time to hop out. ;)

I'm sharing a sexy excerpt from my latest ebook release and giving away 1 free copy to a lucky commenter.

The Kiss: It's getting hot in here

2012-02-14T10:17:00.000Z

Happy Valentine’s Day!

To celebrate this wonderful day of expressing love, I’m sharing one of my favourite kissing scenes to write. It was a toss between the kiss in His Treasure and the one in A Valentine Challenge. In the end, the sparks flying between Michael and Kasie in this AVC scene just stole my breath away. J